Author: Kalev Leetaru

The Web Brought Us Limitless Information But Not The Tools To Manage It

The Pelosi Video: Should Social Media Ban Falsehoods Or Does Democracy Require Free Speech?

WhatsApp's Massive Security Flaw Serves To Remind Us The Limits Of Consumer Encryption Apps

GDPR's Massive 'Research' Exemption: Facebook And Social Science One

The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG): 109 Billion URLs And Half A Trillion Datapoints

Using Deep Learning To Measure The Facial Emotion Of Television

Using AI To Tally The Top Onscreen Television Topics Via OCR And NGrams

WashPost: Are Americans As Interested In Impeachment As The Media Is?

Impeachment Coverage Has Surged as Public Interest Wanes

AI Watching Television News: The Importance Of The Human Face To Television Journalism

AI Watches Television News: A Tweet's Worth Of Onscreen Text Every Second

What Does AI See When It Watches A Week Of Television News?

AI Watching Television News: Deep Learning Meets A Week Of Television

FiveThirtyEight: Beto O'Rourke Ignored Cable News – And It Ignored Him

The Lessons of Poynter's Retracted 'Unreliable News' Blacklist

Towards Data Science: Polls and Press

La Presse: La Reconnaissance Faciale Mise Au Ban à San Francisco

Proppy: Organizing The News Based On Their Propagandistic Content

Sentiment Mining 500 Years Of History: Is The World Really Darkening?

Why San Francisco's Facial Recognition Ban Won't Actually Have Any Impact

What Might The AI-Powered Corporate Library Of The Future Look Like?

Facebook And Social Science One: The Academics Are Rushing To Mine Our Private Data

Would Forcing Longer Social Media Posts Reduce Online Toxicity?

Is Social Media Curating Hate And Scouring The Web For Our Greatest Fears?

FiveThirtyEight: Biden Is (Still) Leading Cable News Coverage

Facebook's Pivot To Groups Could Help It Create Privacy-Protecting Ads

The US Has Stopped Talking About 'Fake News' But Not The Rest Of The World

The Web That Once Sought To Destroy Community Is Working To Rebuild It

Could Data Analytics Force Electric Scooters To Obey Traffic Laws?

Deep Learning Will Be The End Of End To End Encryption